Although the city of East Lansing is pursuing several urban developments, some of the city’s fraternity and sorority houses might have their historic look preserved for years.
In the weeks leading up to the presidential election, the words “maverick,” “change” and “hockey mom” might bear just as heavily in voters’ minds as the candidates’ political repertoires, experts say. The phrases have become mainstays in America’s vocabulary after being uttered countless times by Democratic candidate Barack Obama, Republican candidate John McCain and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during this year’s lengthy campaign season
A group of Michigan’s county clerks has made it possible for first-time voters who registered by mail to cast absentee ballots, but Ingham County Clerk Mike Bryanton said no MSU students have signed on.
Three campus political groups will speak on national issues during a debate tonight in the Wonders Hall Kiva.
A “miscommunication” possibly could allocate $35,055.08 more in funds to ASMSU’s Programming Board to support student events across campus. ASMSU’s Student Assembly Finance Committee on Thursday passed the bill five votes to four that would give more funds to the board, which already receives about 20 percent of ASMSU’s total budget — about $1.3 million.
Richard Louv doesn’t think children spend enough time outside, and he’s coming to MSU to spread the word.
East Lansing city officials and MSU faculty members are invited to an open house from 5-7 p.m. tonight at the Sigma Kappa sorority house on M.A.C. Avenue.
A construction management junior was found guilty Tuesday of disorderly conduct from hindering a police officer for his participation in April’s Cedar Fest riot.
Christoph Benning, an MSU professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named the next editor-in-chief of The Plant Journal.
Being an athletic person most of her life, Sarah Scheidt was looking for something to do when she began at MSU.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and her perspective on her new frontier.
As if being a student didn’t promise enough sleep deprivation, throw in another full-time job: Campaigning. With 13 days to go until Election Day, many MSU student campaigners are feeling the crunch of the last month of campaign season.
MSU alumnus J. Matson Heininger has lived quite an eventful life and describes himself as a “third-tier Renaissance man.”
After not making the MSU softball team in spring 2006, advertising senior Rhonda Adams still wanted to play the sport. Adams, along with psychology senior Angela Newland, finance junior Courtney Overfield and interdisciplinary studies in social science and human resources junior Stephanie Young decided to create MSU Women’s Fast Pitch Club Softball.
Under a brilliantly blue sky, about 50 longtime friends and Spartans fans made their way back to East Lansing to celebrate the memory of a deceased friend. The first “Big Jon Tailgate” was held Saturday to honor the memory of Jonathan “Big Jon” Fedewa, a 2000 MSU graduate died in May at age 30.
So early on, truly anything flies. That’s been MSU men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo’s mindset throughout the team’s first four official practices, playing every single one of his players in various positions to get them comfortable with moving around and responding to adversity when the team needs it most.
Between his light jabs at Michigan, the coy smiles and the pounding of the podium in advance of the day’s practice, it was obvious Tuesday that MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio takes Michigan week seriously.
Last season, one-third of the MSU hockey team’s losses came against Northern Michigan. Four of the icers’ 12 defeats came at the hands of the Wildcats, including back-to-back losses to eliminate the Spartans from the CCHA Tournament.
Often the phrase “don’t worry” actually leads to more worrying. Despite a 10 percent decline in MSU’s business portfolio, which is mostly made up of endowments, MSU officials have told students not to worry.
With a long, proud history as the agricultural school of the state of Michigan, and a tradition of being the land grant university with a duty to the citizens of the state of Michigan, it is time to reconsider the university’s focus on confinement animal agriculture.